Stone v. Reed
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill op interpleader, filed in this court by Amos Stone, against Franklin O. Reed, Francis A. Brooks, and Joseph E. Bartlett, alleging that certain land and flats were, on January 16, 1852, owned by sundry persons in severalty, who on that day united under a written agreement for the purpose of holding the said land and flats as tenants in common and undivided as to the whole premises, in proportion to the length of shore line owned by each, and for the purpose of being…
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Bill op interpleader, filed in this court by Amos Stone, against Franklin O. Reed, Francis A. Brooks, and Joseph E. Bartlett, alleging that certain land and flats were, on January 16, 1852, owned by sundry persons in severalty, who on that day united under a written agreement for the purpose of holding the said land and flats as tenants in common and undivided as to the whole premises, in proportion to the length of shore line owned by each, and for the purpose of being formed or organized into a corporation, which was done under the name of the Mystic River Corporation, as authorized by the…
1Opinion of the CourtW. Allen, J.
The bill alleges that three hundred and twenty-five bonds of the Boston and Lowell Railroad Corporation, of one thousand dollar’s each, came into the hands of the plaintiff, and that sixty-one of them remain in his hands and possession; that the defendant Bartlett has brought a bill in equity against the plaintiff and the Mystic River Corporation to reach and apply these sixty-one bonds upon a debt alleged to be due to him from the corporation; and that the other defendants claim that the bonds are their individual property, and have demanded them of the plaintiff. The bill is defective in…
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